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...Landon School; and the season's final musicale last week, when Speaker of the House Sam Rayburn was honored by the appearance of Rudy Hansen, a cowboy guitarist from New Jersey. Just about the only real pro (who appeared at a dinner honoring Vice President Nixon) was Lawrence Welk. Sneered Coe: "If I were a world figure, I certainly wouldn't want to listen to that kind of thing...
...been flaunting her courage on the air since 1950, when husband Arthur put up the money for Party's first half-hour of relentlessly joyous dancing. Although they picked up a few sponsors, the show was gradually dropped to the status of summer replacement-and clobbered Cornball Lawrence Welk when placed opposite him. Thus encouraged, says Kathryn, "we figured that if we were going to take a chance on being criticized, we'd rather do it on a winter show." This year the Murrays finally found a full-time evening sponsor (P. Lorillard...
With many a TV set, viewers are still subject to double vision. Now both NBC and ABC are trying to add double sound. After a test run in seven cities, Lawrence Welk's Wednesday show (ABC) was broadcast nationwide in stereo, i.e., two different mikes feeding the schmalz into two transmitters. Fans yearning to catch the slightest nuance in each oom-pah-pah could turn on their AM radio as well as the TV set and, by placing them seven to ten feet apart, achieve an approximation of stereo sound. The experiment worked so well that ABC equipped...
...hear first from the organized pressure groups, then the idiot fringe that is made up of the unorganized wet-rock people-who behave as if they've just crawled out from under wet rocks and accuse me of being a Red for poking fun at Johnnie Ray, Lawrence Welk, Jack Webb, the whole State of Nevada and hearing aids." At the prices he now commands, Freberg reckons he can stand the complaints...
...shall survive," said the Spirit of Rock 'n' Roll. "We shall survive despite the Sunday morning rock 'n' rollers, the disc jockey post mortems, and the third rate flicks. Despite Lawrence Welk and Lester Lanin. Despite the amateur sociologists and their 'adolescent subcultures...